July 24, 2019

It Will Not End With 'Send Her Back'

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a28433271/trump-rally-send-her-back-ilhan-omar/?fbclid=IwAR1OraRcy5nSz0uh0_Xz0YEVkTiwl0xiQSU2sFFXOcKOxYXgd2T26B89lMk
"Unfortunately, this is not how the movie ends. The documentaries—assuming we make it that far—may not begin with footage of Donald Trump's rally in North Carolina Wednesday night. It will certainly feature that moment, perhaps as an inflection point in this ongoing national disaster. But it will not be the last scene. History tells us that it never ends with rally crowds, whipped into a frenzy by a racist authoritarian leader, chanting for racial and religious minorities to be stripped of their citizenship and removed from the country. The hatred and the paranoia is coming to a boil now. We have reached a dark place, but we are headed for the truly deep and dark. Even if we make it out the other side, we may not recognize this country by the time we do."